Jorge’s Smog – Test Only Station

This may save you money so take a note:
Jorge doesn’t offer a free re-​test. Most of the other shops do and they may even offer a pretest.
In my case, I expected the car to pass and didn’t worry about a retest. Jorge plugs in the ODB2 and tells me that he’ll be done in 5 minutes. Comes with a print out and says. two of your computer monitors are not ready (so your car fails the test) and go search on the internet for drive cycles and proceeds to charge the full price. When I try to ask some questions, he clearly seems frustrated and says go search for it.
After doing the research, I realized that many shops are willing to do a pre-​test and don’t charge you if the car is not ready. When I went to the different shop, he was willing to check for the readiness before he would charge and the car passed and his cost with the cert fee was lower than what I paid for 5 min of work at Jorge’s.

It is somewhat sad that a person licensed by the state can’t communicate with anyone in a reasonable manner. If you need any advice about what to get fixed you better either speak Spanish or go somewhere else. Regarding the process it is the same everywhere if you don’t need anything and your car passes the first time then go where it is convenient; but if you need to understand what is wrong with your car good luck with this guy.

Great service and prices. I came close to closing time and Jorge stayed late to smog my car.

I made an appointment for 5pm on a Friday. I was literally in and out in 17 minutes… I timed it. There was even someone there before me but because I had an appointment my car was done first.

Great service, quick & easy! It took fifteen minutes total and was CHEAP! $ 61 other places quoted me over the phone at no less than $ 85 and some wouldn’t give me a quote until they saw my car (sketchy). Jorge was friendly and professional! He made small talk, answered my questions and was patient as I asked about sending the certification to DMV. I would highly recommend Jorge to friends and family looking for a test center! 5 stars all the way! Thanks, Jorge!

Taran gave me perfect service. I dropped in on Monday afternoon and my car had passed the smog test in five minutes.

Jorge is a great guy. He works his butt off, educates you if you are willing to listen, and focuses on the straightforward testing of your car. You can’t blame him if you have done shoddy repairs with lousy parts in the past, can’t keep an appointment, or drive a junker. Relax, enjoy the service, and get on with life.

Went in after trying another place on Old Middlefield that was jam packed, The Arco on Shoreline & Middlefield wouldn’t do it cause it was too old of a car. Think they were just being douchy about it. Remembered this place, Jorge ’ s Smog & 20 minutes later I was done.& it passed! Thank you, Jorge!

2005 mazda3, 2.3l 155k
60 — 10 = 50
fast service but kind of expensive.

Jorge is the best smog tech I’ve found in the 10 years I’ve lived in the area and the only guy I take my cars to now.
I was having trouble understanding if one of my cars would pass smog and had some bad experiences with other smog shops refusing to talk to me about what it would need to pass. I went to Jorge and he took the time to explain to me how to test works and what I’d likely need to fix. He went the extra mile and has earned my repeat business. When friends ask for a smog shop, I refer them here without reservation.

I felt that I was rejected on something that could have easily gone the other way. The same car passed with no changes at another place. This means they are looking to reject you so that you have to come back and pay more $.

Fast in and out at a reasonable price. Just the way a smog check should be.

Called Jorge to inquire about an appointment. He told me he is free now. I drove down, he smogged my car in 15 minutes, and I was back to work. This is about as painless as it gets.
Thank you sir.

2^nd time coming here but it won’t be a 3^rd. They could use a proper greeting and customer service skill.
Update: I had to re-​visit the place today since I didn’t have a time to find another place. Nice service after all! It seems like he was just having bad day before because Jorge and his family were super nice today. And Jorge were very knowledgeable and gave a lot of advices.

Quick and professional!

This Jorge guy is garbage. I know it doesn’t exactly apply here but I bought a car off him and it looked fine. Ended up getting scammed cause he didn’t tell me what was wrong with it. Something with the battery. He didn’t want to give me my full money back so I had to get a lawyer and he finally payed it back. Just saying be careful with him. He might scam you into something bad.

About 20 minutes & it’s done! Nice people, good service. They definitely honor appointments as long as you do. If your appointment is at 2pm, that means be there by 2pm, they’re not going to make other people wait longer just because you can’t get there in time. You wouldn’t be late to a meeting with your boss, so give these guys the same courtesy.

Quick and easy. Staff was professional and quick. Only one bay so be sure to make a reservation. They only have one bay.

Called in the morning, came in and got the smog check done in 15 mins. They also have a $ 10 coupon on their site!
A little hard to find but worth the search.

I came here 5 minutes late today for an appointment (because i couldn’t find the place) and then was told that I would have to wait for basically 40 minutes until they could get to me since he was working on someone and someone else was waiting.
I had to go to work by the time they’d be able to get for me so I ended up leaving. but honestly, if there’s an appointment, they should honor it. I understand *I* was late, but it was under 5 minutes AND it doesn’t make up for the fact that even if I were on time, I would’ve had to wait «in line.» I was pretty frustrated since I wanted to make sure that I had driven a bit before coming so yeah.
So if you have a lot of time and can wait for them to actually get to you, then try this place — but don’t come expecting to have things go according to schedule because they don’t honor appointments.
PS: Mountain View Smog Test Only station on W. El Camino does it for the same price and did a GREAT job!!!